Ticket prices have been revealed to see Toby Keith, Aerosmith and Kid Rock perform three separate shows at the Marcus Amphitheater for the Harley-Davidson 110th anniversary celebration Labor Day weekend.

For Melissa Etheridge and a few hundred Milwaukee concert-goers, the most important song of 2013 might be hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' single "Same Love."

"'Gay' is synonymous with the lesser. It's the same hate that's caused wars," Macklemore rhymed as he performed the song at Turner Hall Ballroom in May. "Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on and be yourself." | July 17, 2013»Read Full Article

A TV placement, a major-label contract and an opening gig for President Barack Obama in front of thousands of people: It all happened for sisters Hannah Gabriela Banuelos and Victoriah Banuelos before they even released their first full-length album, "Love of Mine," as Vic and Gab this month.

As one of the few sister-fronted acts in Milwaukee, Vic and Gab inevitably stand out, but the band's dreamy brand of pop/rock is worthy of attention in its own right. Following the release party of "Love" at Cactus Club last week (the album is available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Bandcamp, at shows and the Exclusive Company), Vic and Gab have stuffed in three local shows between July 25 and 30, but its that aggressive approach that helped the band land gigs on the Warped Tour and in front of thousands at a local Obama rally last year. | July 17, 2013»Read Full Article(1)

The ornate marble work they produced distinguished Milwaukee's first Italian immigrants from other ethnic groups in the city. So did their unification under Festa Italiana in 1978 — the city's first ethnic festival on the Summerfest grounds. This citywide Italian family reunion at the lakefront keeps getting bigger and better.

In addition to authentic products and food demonstrations, Festa will offer 40 food vendors selling Italian-American favorite such as pizza, Italian sausage, arancini (rice balls), toasted ravioli, sfingi (Italian doughnuts), Italian cookies and fresh gelato among other mouth-watering dining options. Cannoli fanatics should ready their stomachs because there will be a cannoli-eating contest at 3 p.m. Saturday. Anthony Paulis was the champion of last year's Festa. Who will this year's winner be? | July 17, 2013»Read Full Article(6)

When you think of Paul McCartney, you think of the Beatles and oldies. But McCartney, who still tours, records and has things he feels passionate about, lives in the now.

And so when he decided to do a radio interview prior to his Milwaukee concert Tuesday, "he wanted to talk to a station that wouldn't primarily focus on his past," said WYMS-FM (88.9) program director Mark Keefe, who conducted an exclusive 21-minute telephone interview with McCartney Tuesday for the station, popularly known as RadioMilwaukee. | July 17, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(18)

On the 20th anniversary of his rainy County Stadium outing, Paul McCartney is back at a Milwaukee ballpark, headlining Miller Park on Tuesday. Here are the fan scenes from his Out There tour, which brings McCartney to Milwaukee for the first time since 2005. | July 17, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

I used to have community station WMCS-AM (1290) as one of the buttons on my car radio. And it's still there, even though the station flipped to a format called Martini Radio and changed its call letters to WZTI-AM.

At night the station still features the excellent blues show hosted by Phil Anderson. | July 17, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Paul McCartney's July 16 concert at Miller Park, part of his Out There tour, marks the first time the now 71-year-old has performed in Milwaukee since 2005. This year is also the 20th anniversary of McCartney's memorable Milwaukee County Stadium show.

The upcoming film "The Fifth Estate" is about the whistle-blower website Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange, portrayed by Benedict Cumberbacht, who appeared in "Star Trek Into Darkness" and as a modern day Sherlock Holmes in a British TV series seen on PBS.

The director Bill Condon seems like an odd choice to direct what looks like a political thriller, since he does not have a lot of serious work under his belt - he previously directed the musical "Dreamgirls" and two "Twilight" movies. He also directed "Gods & Monsters." | July 17, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Milwaukee area restaurant inspections:The Journal Sentinel’s restaurant inspections database shows food safety violations for restaurants in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties, with some records going back to January 2012.

Milwaukee's health inspectors have been busy: Nine city restaurants so far this year were ordered to close or partially suspend operations until they addressed violations ranging from pests to smelly sewage in the kitchen.

Nearly all of those restaurants have since reopened, and ordering a closure is still rare when inspectors peek behind the curtains of the hundreds of restaurants and taverns in the city. But those inspections still turned up at least one critical food safety violation at almost 400 of the 900 or so establishments inspected this year, a Journal Sentinel review found. | July 17, 2013»Read Full Article(26)